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Griswold Airport

Field	Value
name	Griswold Airport
(closed)
image	Griswold Airport - USGS 23 April 1990.jpg
image-width	250
caption	USGS 1990 orthophoto
IATA
FAA
type	Defunct
owner	Griswold Airport, Inc.
opened
closed
city-served	Madison, Connecticut
location
elevation-f	15
elevation-m	5
coordinates
mapframe	yes
r1-number	6/24
r1-length-f	1,863
r1-length-m	568
r1-surface	Asphalt
stat-year	2005
stat1-header	Aircraft operations
stat1-data	3,000
footnotes	Source: Federal Aviation Administration
title	N04 – Griswold Airport
url	http://airnav.com/airport/N04
publisher	FAA data republished by AirNav
date	October 25, 2007
archiveurl	https://web.archive.org/web/20071213020829/http://airnav.com/airport/N04
archivedate	December 13, 2007

(closed) | image-width = 250 | city-served = Madison, Connecticut | elevation-f = 15 | elevation-m = 5 | r1-number = 6/24 | r1-length-f = 1,863 | r1-length-m = 568 | r1-surface = Asphalt | stat-year = 2005 | stat1-header = Aircraft operations | stat1-data = 3,000 Griswold Airport was a public airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Madison, a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. It was privately owned by Griswold Airport, Inc. The airport has been closed since the beginning of 2007.

History

Griswold Airport opened in 1931, located between Route 1 and the Hammonasset River, and adjacent to Hammonasset State Park.

In 1969, the Town of Madison paid to pave runway 6/24, in return for the owner's promise to maintain the property as an airport.{{cite web

Shoreline Aviation was founded here in 1980, operating landplanes at first. They added floatplane operations the following year.{{cite web | archive-date = September 5, 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160905105536/http://www.shorelineaviation.com/crbst_2.html | url-status = dead

In 1985, the Griswold family offered to sell the airport to the town of Madison. In November 2000, Leyland Development Corporation obtained an option to purchase the land, and submitted plans for a 260-unit housing development, which was approved by the towns' Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC). A lawsuit against the town to stop the development failed, but local opposition was so strong that Leyland withdrew its original proposal. In the fall of 2003, the developer (renamed LeylandAlliance), submitted a revised proposal to build 131 units. In May 2004, the new proposal was approved by the PZC. LeylandAlliance completed the purchase in February 2007. | archive-date = July 7, 2011 | access-date = August 18, 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110707095945/http://www.airportbusiness.com/web/online/Top-News-Headlines/Connecticuts-Smaller-Airports-Falling-Victim-to-Development/1$11768 | url-status = dead

In January 2010, residents of the Town of Madison voted to buy 42-acre former airport property from the developer.{{cite news | url-status = dead and in 2011 signed a conservation easement to permanently protect 20.6 acres of the land from development.

Facilities and aircraft

Griswold Airport covered an area of 42 acre. It contained one asphalt paved runway designated 6/24 which measured 1,863 by 50 feet (568 x 15 m).

There was also a turf runway designated 4/22, about 1,150 by 50 feet (350 x 15 m);{{refn|group=note | This can be seen faintly on the USGS photo above. The turf runway was originally longer (see 1961 topo map on the Abandoned Airfields site), but after 6/24 was paved, the part south of the access road was no longer maintained.

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2005, the airport had 3,000 general aviation aircraft operations, an average of 57 per week.

Notes

References

"MPE - Madison [Griswold Airport], CT, US - Airport - Great Circle Mapper".

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